Do Gophers have WWWebbed feet?

Abstract

I like the word "complements" much more than the word "versus," and I like the way Gopher complements the World Wide Web. If you are a current or aspiring information provider, you have probably been involved in discussions which place these two Internet-based information discovery tools in direct opposition. It's almost like a B-grade movie --- Gopher versus World Wide Web --- the audience being treated to the slaying of text-based information delivery by global hypermedia with its entourage of pictures, movies, and sounds. All this played out before our eyes to the sad strains of that increasingly popular tune "As the Bandwidth Played on."